Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian
Hello everybody,
sorry if it is too naive, but is there an easy way to determine for a
given Unicode string if it can be typed from a single keboard layout or
produced by a text-to-speech system? People who want a username because
of SSH, email and su will want to be able to input it. On the other
range of user cases, they can use a computer for years without seeing
their username.
If we take one step back and look at the future: will usernames
still be a thing in 10 years? If not, then a simple heuristic that
satisfies more than half of the users may be enough...
Have a nice day,
Charles
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